Then you, ye auld, snick-drawing dog! Ye cam to Paradise incog, An’ played on a man a cursed brogue, (Black be your fa’!) An’ gied the infant warld a shog, ‘Maist ruined a’.
ATTRIBUTION:
Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scottish poet. Address to the Deil (l. 91–96). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I–II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).
